Where would they fit into his hierarchy and why?
-Water, Air, Sunlight, Heat are all physiological because they are all required for a person to even live. Without these things a person could die of deydration, suffocation, bad skin and freezing.
Can any one of those fit in more than one area? If so, where else could they fit and why?
- Procreation is one of these examples, it can go into physiological and safety. It can go into physiological because it’s something people need to continue the existence of man kind. It’s also placed in safety because it insures the continuation of the family.
- Car is both social safety. It’s physical structure is a protective instrument itself and if you have a good car it could secure your image. It’s also in social because a good car can give you a good social status.
- Self respect is in esteem and love because self respect is esteem and respect can be a form of love.
- Support provides safety because it’s basically someone securing someone else. You are given support when you are accepted. It’s a form of love because you provide support to the people you love.
- Friendship is social because it involves interacting with others. It’s in esteem because it’s what everyone wants. It’s in love because it involves liking another person.
- Shelter is a form of safety because it provides protection. It’s physiological because everyone needs a home to feel safe in.
- Money is safety because it provides protection from a lack of needs. It also secures a social status.
- Love is safety, social, esteem and belonging because it’s safe for social status, it involves interaction, it’s something people want and it’s also the acceptance of one another.
- Acceptance is self actualization because you finally realize your potential and you belong somewhere when you are accepted by others.
Generate three other needs that you believe are important. Those needs must fit in two or more categories of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. (Note: Your responses to the above should be short and concise. Make reference to an example to support your reason for placing the need where you did.)
- Land- It’s physiological and safety. People need land to survive on and the land keeps a person safe.
- cloth- It’s safety because it provides protection from cold weather. It’s also elf-actualization because it’s can describe a person’s situation, style and personality.
- Internet- It’s a form of esteem because everyone wants it. It’s social because it’s a method of communication.
What seems to be the major motivating factor(s) for people that are affected by an eating disorder?
Eating dissorder, often a situation where a person could have anorexia nervosa or bolimia nervosa. Anorexia is the situation where a person has the dilution that she is not pleased with her appearance and wants to become thinner so she doesn't eat. Bolimia nervosa is similar but rather than starving they eat a lot at one point and then vomit it back out. One of the biggest causes of this is the media. People are manipulated by models and celebrities to think that what they look like is pretty. It just so happens they are all extremely skinny. People want to start looking like them and become disgusted with their current appearance. Another influence is the internet, there are sites where they give you advice about how to stop eating and lose the feeling of hunger. Some sites even tell you how to keep the secret from parents.
Lesson 1 Altruism is the selfless helping of others.
There are several theories on motivation. They range from biological/instinctive, to drives and incentives, to arousal, and to humanistic hierarchies. But why do some people - a lot of people really - seek to do good. Consider the following website to get an idea of what motivates people to become altruistic http://www.humantruth.info/altruism.html .
As you read through the entire site consider the following questions. Consider the reading in light of the questions and write your reaction to it on your wiki. The questions are only a guide. Due next class. Be sure to have the answers to the following questions posted on your wiki.
Are we, as some might say, motivated by a desire to save our off-spring?
Must there always be some sort of intrinsic reward for doing good?
Mr. Otis once said, "That having integrity is doing the right thing when no one is watching." If this is so, and no one knows when we have done good, would you still do good?
"Delayed reciprocal altruism", seems like a gamble - back to game theory, any way. Does this seem to make sense to you. That is that we act out of a desire to have what we have done being done to us?
Are we ever being truly "selfless" when committing an act of altruism?
Yes, I believe that we are motivated by a desire to save our off-spring. One of the most common motivation's would be to get a promotion or even get a job because they need the support the family, the off-springs. For some people, we marry to get an off-spring and the parents normally want their offspring to pass on the responsibility of taking care of the off-spring to someone else.
Although this is something that I find hard to accept, I'm afraid that I must. Any good action we do always comes with a reward. It may not be a physical reward. However, it's still a reward that we often tend to enjoy. Often we find ourselves doing chores around the house so that we receive a reward of some kind, money or candy. Even when we don't get rewards such as these we receive a neurochemical reward, where a chemical is released form our brains making us feel proud of our-self's. Being a good person can bring us social rewards like titles while we can also do things so that we can take ownership of them something. We often tend to use this method when we say "You owe me."
Honestly speaking I may do the minor good things but perhaps not the ones that take more effort. I will throw away the rubbish in the trash when no one is watching, take the public transports instead of the car or even, although rarely, clean up my room. If the action was to perhaps, start baking cake for everyone in the class without aasked, then I am very confident that I won't. However, the minor good actions I do are because I get a neurochemical reward, or a cleaner room.
In certain ways this does make sense to me because a if a person treats another person badly the other person is likely to do the same. However, I think the method in which you socialize could effect the other person's action. For example, I could treat another person with a lot of respect, consider him as a friend and try to invite him to my party's. However, the other person might not do the same because although he might not hate me, he also might not think of me as a friend because I'm not funny enough or can be very annoying without knowing.
I do believe that it is possible, if the person was unconcious, such as being drugged, he probably won't be able to process what he is doing properly and without knowing it, stumble into doing a good action. I there is no one there at the time to reward with a social title, to take ownership over or give a prize at all and he doesn't realize what he is doing is good then he is being selfless when committing an act of altruism.
What might be the social/political implications for there being a gay gene?
If there was to be a gay gene, we would realize that being gay is like the color of our skin and something we were just born with. Homosexuality would no longer be considered as an enviromental issue and people would be more open minded on the idea and more people would accept it. However, people are worried that people may recognize it to be a defect and has to be fixed. People will try to eradicate homosexuality by using therapy.
Where would they fit into his hierarchy and why?
-Water, Air, Sunlight, Heat are all physiological because they are all required for a person to even live. Without these things a person could die of deydration, suffocation, bad skin and freezing.
Can any one of those fit in more than one area? If so, where else could they fit and why?
- Procreation is one of these examples, it can go into physiological and safety. It can go into physiological because it’s something people need to continue the existence of man kind. It’s also placed in safety because it insures the continuation of the family.
- Car is both social safety. It’s physical structure is a protective instrument itself and if you have a good car it could secure your image. It’s also in social because a good car can give you a good social status.
- Self respect is in esteem and love because self respect is esteem and respect can be a form of love.
- Support provides safety because it’s basically someone securing someone else. You are given support when you are accepted. It’s a form of love because you provide support to the people you love.
- Friendship is social because it involves interacting with others. It’s in esteem because it’s what everyone wants. It’s in love because it involves liking another person.
- Shelter is a form of safety because it provides protection. It’s physiological because everyone needs a home to feel safe in.
- Money is safety because it provides protection from a lack of needs. It also secures a social status.
- Love is safety, social, esteem and belonging because it’s safe for social status, it involves interaction, it’s something people want and it’s also the acceptance of one another.
- Acceptance is self actualization because you finally realize your potential and you belong somewhere when you are accepted by others.
Generate three other needs that you believe are important. Those needs must fit in two or more categories of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. (Note: Your responses to the above should be short and concise. Make reference to an example to support your reason for placing the need where you did.)
- Land- It’s physiological and safety. People need land to survive on and the land keeps a person safe.
- cloth- It’s safety because it provides protection from cold weather. It’s also elf-actualization because it’s can describe a person’s situation, style and personality.
- Internet- It’s a form of esteem because everyone wants it. It’s social because it’s a method of communication.
What seems to be the major motivating factor(s) for people that are affected by an eating disorder?
Eating dissorder, often a situation where a person could have anorexia nervosa or bolimia nervosa. Anorexia is the situation where a person has the dilution that she is not pleased with her appearance and wants to become thinner so she doesn't eat. Bolimia nervosa is similar but rather than starving they eat a lot at one point and then vomit it back out. One of the biggest causes of this is the media. People are manipulated by models and celebrities to think that what they look like is pretty. It just so happens they are all extremely skinny. People want to start looking like them and become disgusted with their current appearance. Another influence is the internet, there are sites where they give you advice about how to stop eating and lose the feeling of hunger. Some sites even tell you how to keep the secret from parents.
Lesson 1
Altruism is the selfless helping of others.
There are several theories on motivation. They range from biological/instinctive, to drives and incentives, to arousal, and to humanistic hierarchies. But why do some people - a lot of people really - seek to do good. Consider the following website to get an idea of what motivates people to become altruistic http://www.humantruth.info/altruism.html .
As you read through the entire site consider the following questions. Consider the reading in light of the questions and write your reaction to it on your wiki. The questions are only a guide. Due next class. Be sure to have the answers to the following questions posted on your wiki.
What might be the social/political implications for there being a gay gene?
If there was to be a gay gene, we would realize that being gay is like the color of our skin and something we were just born with. Homosexuality would no longer be considered as an enviromental issue and people would be more open minded on the idea and more people would accept it. However, people are worried that people may recognize it to be a defect and has to be fixed. People will try to eradicate homosexuality by using therapy.